arcmsr(4)

NAME

arcmsr - Areca SATA II RAID Controller driver

SYNOPSIS

device arcmsr
device pci
device scbus
device da

DESCRIPTION

The arcmsr driver provides support for the Areca ARC-11xx

and ARC-12xx
series of SATA II RAID controllers. These controllers fea

ture RAID-0, 1,
3, 5, 6, and 10 and JBOD acceleration for up to 16 SATA

drives. Raid
level and stripe level migration, online capacity expansion,

hot insertion/removal, automatic failover and rebuild, and SMART are

also supported. Access to the arrays is provided via the SCSI CAM

/dev/da?
device nodes. A management interface is also present via

the
/dev/arcmsr? device node. Management tools for i386 and

amd64 are available from Areca.

HARDWARE

The arcmsr driver supports the following cards:

+o ARC-1110
+o ARC-1120
+o ARC-1130
+o ARC-1160
+o ARC-1130-ML
+o ARC-1160-ML
+o ARC-1210
+o ARC-1220
+o ARC-1230
+o ARC-1260
+o ARC-1230-ML
+o ARC-1260-ML

FILES

/dev/da? Array block device
/dev/arcmsr? Management interface
/boot/kernel/arcmsr.ko Loadable module

SEE ALSO

da(4), scbus(4)

HISTORY

The arcmsr driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.4.

AUTHORS

The driver was written by Erich Chen <erich@areca.com.tw>.

BUGS

The driver has been tested on i386 and amd64. It likely re

quires additional work to function on big-endian architectures.

BSD March 31, 2005

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